Based on field recordings gathered throughout the development of the ‘Rádio Bugio’ project, Bernardo Gaeiras and Diana Policarpo propose an exercise in active listening with other forms of life, rhythms, and intelligences.  

The soundscape is composed of underwater frequencies, atmospheric pulses, and vibrations captured around mineral structures – interwoven with interviews with scientists who study life forms only observable under a microscope, such as marine fungi, phytoplankton, and e bacteria. These fragments give voice to a sensory ecology that transcends the human, calling forth the voices of air, water, and matter. 

The Bugio radio-station is an ongoing sound art project developed by Gaeiras and Policarpo, establishing a shared broadcasting point on the lighthouse island of Bugio – between species, environments, and temporalities. 

This project was developed as part of the Art & Science Residency ‘A Call to the Sea’, held at the São Lourenço do Bugio Fortress in 2025, with the support of the Municipality of Oeiras and the Lighthouse Directorate, within the framework of the European project ‘Bauhaus of the Seas Sails’, with CAM as Cultural Partner.